Emily Davison was a famous woman of the suffragette movement. The mystery is why she jumped into a pack of race horses. To make a point about the movement? Well, she died, and the horse and jockey took a bad spill. This video gives a brief background about her, shows the film of what happened, and her funeral.
http://youtu.be/kVPTXmesMpo
And 100 years later there are still unresolved issues
Glad she was the only one killed. I have absolute ZERO sympathy for terrorists.
My question on that was always were the horse and jockey okay? (No sympathy for people who pull stupid stunts. Never understood why hunger strikes work, either…food’s provided, eat it or starve. Literally. Not my fault you won’t eat what’s offered.)
Also no sympathy - and if anyone’s read my posts in any even slightly related post, I am all for women’s rights.
But I am definitely not for people putting others’ lives at risk to make their “statement.” Hey, I’m upset about the male-female wage gap, how 'bout I drive my car into a group of kindergardeners?
Fanatics of any stripe are a danger to themselves and the rest of us that may cross their paths while they are being, well, fanatics.
Sadly, common sense just doesn’t seem to be that common.
She seems to have achieved what she set out to do. You’re still talking about old news!
The jockey; http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-22717894
Dumb @$$ female.
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Well, if what she set out to do was to be remembered as a “brutal lunatic woman”, I guess she did?
horse and jockey were OK
“Herbert Jones, the King’s jockey, who was unhorsed by Miss Davison’s action and who, though stunned, had the good fortune to escape serious injury, returned to his home at Newmarket yesterday. His face is very badly bruised and his left eye closed and discoloured”
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jun/06/suffragette-emily-davison-derby
Yep, her family must be proud that people are still talking about what a flipping moron she was, a hundred years later. Hopefully she didn’t reproduce prior to this stupid stunt.
I thought she was probably either high or insane.
Still, a neat bit of footage. Interesting how differently everything was handled back then.
among the comments - one wrote:
For the record, Emily Davison planned to attach a ribbon or scarf to the king’s horse in the name of publicity. She wasn’t attempting suicide or harm to the jockey or horse.
It was an extreme idea, but the entire Suffragette movement had moved on to extreme measures. Hunger Strikes, mailing themselves to 10 Downing Street, constant arrests - to us now it might seem like an insane level of protest and commitment, but these women, who simply wanted the right to vote in elections, had already found their cause to be falling on deaf ears. “What are the little ladies on about now?” sort of thing. Letter writing and peaceful protest wasn’t cutting it any more.
Was she brave? Yes, she was. If you’ve ever had even ONE horse galloping at you, you know it’s a scary thing. To be in the field with all the horses was dangerous, and risky, but these were women desperate to be heard. ?
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Largely in part to her “brave sacrifice”.
Complete stupidity!
I see this totally differently from all the above posters. Our lives are the way they are now because of the courage of people like her. Her stunt did not come off that well, but she knew what the danger was, anybody would, yet she stood up for her cause with courage.
And to compare her to a terrorist… really…the similarity is that she believed in her cause.
